Then the second angel sounded: and something like a great mountain burning
with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
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Something like a great mountain: John carefully says that this is
not an actual mountain (note the use of like), but it is a blazing mass
as large as a mountain. (DG)
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The sea may be a specific reference to the Mediterranean and not a
reference to all oceans. For a person in the world John lived in, the
Mediterranean Sea was the sea, and they really had little knowledge of
other oceans. (DG)
Exodus 7:17-20 thus says the LORD: By this you shall know that I am the
LORD. Behold, I will strike the waters
which are in the river with the rod that is my hand, and they shall be turned
to blood…….
Ezekiel 14:19 Or if I
send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood, and cut
off from it man and beast…..
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